Biden to Send 31 Abrams Tanks to Kill Russians in Ukraine

Make sure you thank Mitch McConnell and the Seditious Seventeen for this. They all voted to defend Ukraine, while surrendering America.

Just last week, Biden sent another $2.5 billion in American military equipment to Ukraine, including Stryker armed fighting vehicles and 59 Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

Neither of those vehicles is a tank, though they are armored and have guns. They're troop carriers with some offensive weaponry.

The US will be sending vehicles to Ukraine, including, 59 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, 90 Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers, 53 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, 350 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, 12 ammunition support vehicles, 6 command post vehicles, and 22 tactical vehicles to tow weapons.

The US will also be sending munitions and defense systems including eight Avenger air defense systems, additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, anti-tank missiles and 25mm ammunition for Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, 600 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds, 95,000 105mm artillery rounds, 11,800 120mm mortar rounds, 3 millions rounds of small arms ammunition, and high-speed anti-radiation missiles.

Now Biden says he's also going be sending actual tanks -- 31 Abrams tanks.

On Wednesday, President Biden announced that his administration would continue to assist Ukraine's efforts to thwart Russian aggression by sending thirty-one M1 Abrams tanks to the Eastern European nation.

Biden's announcement came just hours after his German counterpart Olaf Scholz made it known that Berlin would be supplying Ukraine with a series of Leopard 2 tanks.

"Today," Biden began, "I'm announcing that the United States will be sending thirty-one Abrams tanks to Ukraine, the equivalent of one Ukrainian battalion."

At the same time, Ukrainian officials are resigning over a scandal involving their embezzlement of funds for their own personal use.

The Wall Street Journal:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed nearly a dozen top officials as he tries to contain a series of corruption scandals and shore up Western confidence in his administration at a critical moment in the war.

Though the scandals are small compared with those of previous Ukrainian governments--some of which were accused of stealing billions in public funds--they are nonetheless a blow to Mr. Zelensky, who has garnered praise at home and abroad for his leadership of the country during Russia's invasion.

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In a series of public addresses this week, Mr. Zelensky indicated he was seeking to clean house by dismissing officials of various levels in ministries, the regions and law enforcement, and tried to present the firings as proof of a break from corrupt regimes of the past.

Jazz Shaw isn't buying the "Zelensky is a corruption-fighter" spin from the Establishment press.

At least four high-ranking officials in Kyiv have either resigned or been dismissed amidst an ongoing corruption investigation that somehow has failed to generate a lot of headlines in the United States. The people involved have mostly been accused of lining their own pockets with money that should have gone to aid the public during the war. Of course, if you read the way the Associated Press covered this story, you would think that Zelensky himself was the anti-corruption crusader rooting all of these rats out of their hiding places. But does that really sound very plausible?

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The first name on the list should have raised some immediate red flags. Kyrylo Tymoshenko was the deputy head of Zelensky's presidential office. He had previously been linked to "the embezzlement of humanitarian aid worth more than $7 million." That money was supposed to go toward feeding people in areas battered harshly during the Russian attacks, but it disappeared. (It should go without saying that much of that cash came from American taxpayers.) That much loot disappeared from right inside of Zelensky's own office and he knew nothing about it?

The State Department trotted out the Unimpeachably Honest Ned Pryce to say, "Don't even worry about it mates, no American taxpayer monies were stolen, we totally went over it all with a fine-toothed comb from a distance of 1000 miles, and we are 100% sure that the corrupt Ukrainian officials only stole Ukrainian money, but left the American money right where it's supposed to be. Maybe they nicked some Canadian money but that's not real money anyhow."

Or something like that. From Euronews:

The United States vowed to tightly monitor how Ukraine spends billions of dollars of aid on Tuesday, following a damaging corruption scandal that led to a string of resignations in Kyiv.

While Washington said it had no evidence western funds were being misused, US State Department Spokesman Ned Price promised there would be "rigorous monitoring" to ensure American assistance was not diverted.

Several senior Ukrainian officials were dismissed on Tuesday, in the wake of a corruption scandal surrounding illicit payments to deputy ministers and over-inflated military contracts.

Well as long as there'll be "rigorous monitoring" of all monies from a distance of 1000 miles, I'm totally reassured. Not sure why we didn't already have "rigorous monitoring" over the $100 billion we've spent in Ukraine so far, but I'm sure Ned "Good as Gold" Pryce has a slick answer for us about that that is totally candid and plausible.

Meawhile, rumor has it that Vladimir Putin is negotiating with the Tabilan to buy all the advanced US weapons Biden left behind in his disgracefully chaotic bug-out.

VLADIMIR Putin is plotting to grab weapons seized by the Taliban during the US evacuation of Afghanistan, a so-called Kremlin insider claims.

The Russian tyrant is reportedly in the midst of negotiations with the terror group to recognise the Taliban government.

In return, Putin wants US equipment snatched from Afghanistan by the Taliban to be handed over, according to Telegram channel General SVR, which claims to be fed information by a Kremlin insider.

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The US spent an estimated 62billion [pounds] on weapons and equipment to arm the Afghan army as they propped up the government after toppling the Taliban in 2001.

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It is thought Taliban fighters may have stolen as many as half a million US weapons and up to 50,000 vehicles.

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Estimates state 22,174 Humvees, 634 M1117s armoured cars, 115 Maxx Pros trucks, and 549,118 machine guns, assault rifles and pistols were given over by the US.

Some 33 Black Hawk helicopters, 23 Super Tucano fighter planes and 4 C-130 transport planes were also given to the Afghan Air Force.

I saw an account on Twitter, who offered no cite for his claim, say that the amount being discussed to buy almost all of the US weaponry is $7.12 billion. Nice little discount.

Maybe they'll ship those American armaments to Ukraine. Wouldn't that be just so Biden.

Update: From Christopher R. Taylor

Joe Biden in March of 2022:

"The idea that we're gonna send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews ...that's called World War Three, OK? Let's get it straight here, guys"

We're closer to Armageddon than we've ever been and that's my word as a Biden, Fat.

posted by Lamont the Big Dummy at 03:55 PM

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